There are no signs of civil war, there have been no widespread protests, and no one person is to blame
Instead: unrequited ambition, several poor but ultimately well-meaning decisions and the grim reality that the snakes are harder to avoid than the ladders are easy to find.
If this is a tale of anything at all, it is how difficult managerial appointments are for lower-league clubs. Get it right and you lose them and cause upheaval. Get it wrong and you cause upheaval and then you sack them. Grant McCann left for Hull City, Darren Moore for Sheffield Wednesday. Then came the mistakes: Richie Wellens, Gary McSheffrey, Danny Schofield – only for McSheffrey could you say that there was no obvious logic. And now, back to McCann again.
Clubs like these ebb and flow and ebb again and this is a pronounced slump. They have 12 new players to bed in and a new-old manager to do it. There are 24 teams in every EFL division and, if you’re lucky, supporters of a third of them will be happy come May. In that context, other things gain added importance. The club’s season tickets are the third lowest in League Two. Club Doncaster Foundation is a charity organisation that works with Doncaster Rovers, Doncaster Rovers Belles and Doncaster Rugby League to oversee community initiatives and few clubs in the country do more. The Fit Rovers scheme offers physical exercise initiatives to vulnerable members of the community.
If there is criticism of the owners and directors for a perceived lack of progress on the pitch, it should be offset by their commitment to Doncaster’s long-term future. Financial sustainability often feels like a mirage in“The question we pose from this end is ‘how can we invest the money more wisely?’” owner Terry Bramall said in February.
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